Portable dump.



No. 650,5!0. Patented May 29, |900.

T. J. KIMLER.

PORTABLE DUMP.

(Application led Jan. 12, 1899.) (No Model.)

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UNrrnD STATES PATENT rruoMAs J. KIMLER., or ons MOINES, Iowa. l

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,510, dated May 29,1900. Application filed January 12, 1899. serial No. 702,013. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. KMLER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Portable Dumps, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for receiving,hoisting, and dumping earth or other desired material or substance intoa wagon, car, or other receptaele.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof elements hereinafter set forth,pointed out in my claims, andillustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a planof the complete machine arranged to receive, hoist, and dump earth. Fig.2 is an elevation, partly in section, longitudinally of the machine.Fig. 3 is a crosssection of the machine on the indicated line 3 3 ofFig. 1. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan of the conveying and hoistingplatform detached from the machine. Fig. 5 is aside elevation of aportion of the machine, showing lever and cable for repositioning thedumping-section of the track. l

In the construction of the machine as shown the numeral designates abase-frame of approximately-rectangular form, built up of beams andcross-bars rigidly connected. An auxiliary base-frame 11 is mounted inhorizontal alinement with the base-frame 10 and is hinged thereto at oneend and arranged to be turned upwardly and forwardly thereon, asindicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. Posts 12 are mounted on and risefrom the side beams of the base-frame 10, and track-beams 13, 14, 15,and 1G are arranged in pairs in in clined planes and supported on theupper ends of said posts and the base-frame. Rollers 17 -are mountedbetween the' individual beams forming the pairs of track-beams andproject upwardly from the uppermost plane thereof. Posts 1S are mountedon and rise Rollers 23 are mounted between the individual beams formingthe pairs of track-beams 19, 20, 21, and 22 and project above theuppermost plane thereof in alinement with the rollers 17. Brace-beams 24are mounted in inclined planes on and are fixed to the posts 12 1Sbetween the 'track-beams and the base-frame 10, and the rear ends of thebrace-beams project rearwardly from the posts 18 and are ehamfered toform stops for the pivoted track-beams to limit and determine themovement of dumping thereof. A platform 25 is mounted horizontally onrollers 26, mounted in the auxiliary base-frame 11, and said platform isformed with a board 27, fixed to and rising from its forward margin. Apost 2S is fixed to and rises from the central portion of the forwardedge of the auxiliary base-frame 11, and a gravity-operating hook 29 ispivoted thereon and extends rearwardly over and in temporary engagementwith the board 27. Approaches 30 3l are provided at the sides of theplatform 25, whereby teams and earth-Scrapers may be driven upon andaway from the platform. A cable 32 is xed at one end to the lower faceof the platform 25 and extends rearwardly therefrom to and around asheave 33, mounted on and above the rear end of the base-frame l0. Thecable extends from the sheave 33 to a point of attachment on theperiphery of a drum 34, mounted rigidly on a shaft 35, journaled in thebrace-beams 24. The shaft 35 may be driven inv any desired manner,either by a hoisting-engine or otherwise.` Locking-bars 36 37 aremounted on the lower face of the platform 25 and are arranged to enterlongitudinally into staples 38 39 on and projecting inwardly from thetrack-beams 2O 21. A cable 40 is attached at onev end to the forward endof the track-beam 22, extends forwardly therefrom through an eye 41 onthe track- Vbeam 16, and thence downwardly 'to attachment to the centralportion of a hand-lever 42, which lever is fulcrumed at its lower end inone ofthe brace-beams and is arranged for oscillation longitudinally ofthe machine.

In practical use of the machine the parts are assembled and relativelypositioned as shown. Earth is then deposited, preferably by scrapers, onthe platform 25 until said platform is loaded. The shaft 35 then isrotated to wind the cable 32 on the drum 34 IOO and draw the platform upthe inclined trackbeams, the hook 29 being rst released from the board27 by hand to release the platform for travel. In the ascent of theplatform the locking-bars 36 37 enter and traverse the staples 38 39 andlock the pivoted track-beams and platform together. In the furthertravel of the cable 32 the pivoted track-beams and platform areconjunctively tilted'or rocked, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2,being temporarily connected by the entrance of the locking-bars 36 37into staples 38 39, and the platform strikes a cross-beam 43 and jarsthe earth substance therefrom into `the Wagon or other receptacleprovided therefor. The rotation ofy the shaft 35 is then reversed, thepivoted track-beams and platform repositioned, as shown, by man-ualactuation of the lever 42, and the platform permitted to run down theincline into the position illustrated, the hook 20 automaticallycatching and holding it in the proper position. The auxiliary base-framemay be folded on the incline and draft-animals attached to the forwardend of the base-frame l0 to transport the machine.

I claim as my invention* 1.' The combination of the inclined track androllers therein, the hinged track-section and rollers therein7 thepivoted track-section and rollers therein, the receptacle arranged 3ofor travel on the track-rollers and means for locking the receptacle andpivoted tracksections together.

2. The combination of the track and rollers therein, a portion of thetrack being pivoted and provided With staples, a receptacle arranged fortravel on the track-rollers and provided ivith locking-bars adapted toenter the staples and lock the receptacle and pivoted track-sectionstogether.

3. The combination of the inclined track and the rollers therein, partof said track beingv arranged for oscillation and provided With staples,a track-section hinged tothe track and provided with rollers, areceptacle mounted for travel on the tracks, bars on the receptaclearranged to enter the staples,mech anism for drawing the receptacle uponand dumping the same, with the pivoted portion of the track and a leverand cable 'for repositioning the receptacle and pivoted portions of thetrack.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this 3d day of December, 1803.

THOMAS J. KIMLER.

lvitnesses:

S. C. SWEET,v E. C. KLINE.

